Betting on the Muse电子书

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Contents

Splash

The Women

The Monkey

Whistler

The Pleasures of the Damned

Those Marvelous Lunches

Panties

The Dead Flowers of Myself

Me Against the World

The Snails

Again

The World War One Movies

To Hell and Back in a Buggy Carriage

Stages

Escape

Woman on the Street

Confession of a Coward

The Secret

Somebody Else

A View From the Quarter, March 12th, 1965:

Drink

Black and White

And all the Snow Melted

An Empire of Coins

A Nickel

Nature Poem

Warning

Answer to a Note on the Dresser:

You don't Know

Let Not

The Death of a Roach

The Unwritten

Right Now

The Sheep

Piss

Last Fight

Defining the Magic

Writing

Views

The Strong Man

The Terror

The Kiss-Off

Betting on the Muse

The Unaccommodating Universe

Met a Man on the Street

Hell is Now

The Kid

"To Serve and Protect"

Bad Day

The Dick

Fall of the Roman Empire

People

Ransom

It's Difficult For Them

Think of it

Chicken Giblets

The Lover

No Win

The Star

An Evaluation

Neon

They Think this is the way it's Done

The Pile-Up

12 Minutes to Post

As the Poems Go

The Telephone

Hideaway

This Dirty, Valiant Game

Stay out of my Slippers, you Fool

The Voice

The Bard of san Francisco

On Biographies

A Real Break

Avoiding Humanity

What Happened to the Loving, Laughing...

The Luck of the Word

Bad Form

Last Call

The Shape of the Star

Upon Reading a Critical Review

Paris, What?

A Social Call

The Girls we Followed Home

Slow Starter

Barstool

Look Back, Look Up

Paris

The Good Soul

Lousy Mail

The Suicide

Confession of a Genius

Traffic Report

Hands

Final Score

The Misanthrope

Putting it to Bed

The trash can

Block

Storm

The Similarity

My Madness

Pastoral

Finis

That Rare Good Moment

Doesn't seem like much

Strange Luck

Until it Hurts

Death in the Afternoon

The Gods

Floss, Brush and Flush

A Great Show

Epilogue

Fante

It Got Away

The Luck of the Draw

Let it enfold you

The 13th Month

Finis, II

The Observer

August, 1993

This Night

Betting on now

Decline

In the Mouth of the Tiger

The Laughing Heart

A Challenge to the Dark

So Now?

About the Author

By Charles Bukowski

Copyright

About the Publisher